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FROM POVERTY TO POWER15 For a more detailed discussion of the nature, extent, and current trends ininequality, see D. <strong>Green</strong> (2006) ‘Equality, Inequality, and Equity’.16 E. Anderson and T. O’Neill (2006).17 Gender parity in education is the only aspect of inequality explicitly addressedin the MDGs.18 See the following reports for a summary of the literature on changing views ofequality: World Bank (2005) World Development Report 2006; UNDP (2005)op. cit.; UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2006) op. cit.19 A. Verschoor, A. Covarrubias, and C. Locke (2006) Women’s EconomicEmpowerment: Gender and Growth.20 Chronic <strong>Poverty</strong> Research Centre (2004) op. cit.21 PPP$, UNDP (2007) Human Development Report 2007/<strong>2008</strong>.22 UNDP (2005) op. cit.23 R. Chambers (1997).24 R. Chambers et al. (2000).25 The MDGs were agreed by the international community in 2000, and seta number of targets for improvements in areas such as health, education, andpoverty. See: www.un.org/millenniumgoals.26 UN (2007) The Millennium Development Goals Report.27 UNDP (2005) op. cit. Following the World Bank’s recalculation ofpurchasing power parity estimates for individual countries in December 2007,which drastically reduced (in PPP terms) the GDP of countries such as China,poverty numbers in China and India, among others, were likely <strong>to</strong> be revisedsharply upwards. However, figures were not available at the time of writing.See B. Milanovic,‘Developing countries worse off than once thought’,YaleGlobal, 11 February <strong>2008</strong>.28 UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2006) op. cit.29 J. Beall and S. Fox (2006).30 UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2006) op. cit.31 UN (2007) The Millennium Development Goals Report.32 WHO (2007) ‘Malaria’.33 UNDP (2005) op. cit.34 UNICEF (<strong>2008</strong>).35 UNDP (2005) op. cit.36 UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2006) op. cit.37 UNAIDS and WHO (2007).38 P. Kan<strong>to</strong>r and P. Nair (2005).39 Chronic <strong>Poverty</strong> Research Centre (<strong>2008</strong>).40 UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2006) op. cit.41 F.H.G. Ferreira et al. (2005).42 IPEA (undated).43 www.oxfam.org/en/about/accountability/strategic_plan44 www.fp2p.org45 M.L. King (1968).446

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